By Chuck Slothower | The Farmington Daily Times
A move by the Arizona Corporation Commission to consider deregulating the electric market in that state is sending a jolt through San Juan County, causing local public officials and the operator of Four Corners Power Plant to increasingly question the plant’s future.
Arizona Public Service Co., the operator and part owner of Four Corners, is urgently pushing the ACC to end its inquiry into deregulation. APS spokesman Damon Gross said the utility cannot move ahead with pending deals to supply the plant with coal and complete a $294 million purchase as long as the deregulation debate looms.
“We need that issue resolved,” he said.
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